how do you pronounce "sauna"

[The Notorious LOL]

?!

[gbsuey]

saw-na

how would you say it?

ok i just saw the bit up there-homosexual?? explain

[ericlee]

like I would with Shawna, cept for droppin' out the h, yo.

[mikizee]

Its pronounced sawnuh you fuck (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sauna)

[QueenAdrock]

My Finnish family pronounces it "sow-na."

[QueenAdrock]

Its pronounced sawnuh you fuck (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sauna)

It says [saw-nuh, sou-], so sou-nuh (same as sow-na) would also be correct. The audio just has one version of it.

[mikizee]

I don't have time for details.

I'm a very busy man.

[Dorothy Wood]

yeah, it's sow-na. that's the proper pronunciation. for shiizzzzzzzzzzzz.

I'm half finnish!

I still get yelled at by my aunt if I accidentally say "saw na".


ETHIC HERITAGE FTW!

[roosta]

Who calls it "sow-na"?

Ive never heard that in my life...

[Freebasser]

Sore-nurr

[TAL]

Hahahahahaha

[gbsuey]

Sore-nurr

almost somerset speak-zorrrr-nurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[b-grrrlie]

You say tomato I say ketchup.

[trailerprincess]

say-oooh-nah

[Drederick Tatum]

It's chowda! Say it! CHOWDA!

[ms.peachy]

neither. more like 'sah-na'.

[b-grrrlie]

That is the closest to right pronounciation!
Just add u in the middle, sort of sah-uh-na, say it quickly without the h's and you're there.

[Freebasser]

"Hot box"

[Bob]

saOOOOOOOONah

i don't get invited to sauna parties often

[MC Moot]

I say saw-na...but the Fins who invented it and work round here say sow-na...

[Dorothy Wood]

I think it's tricky to get people with all different accents to figure out how a word is said.

[MC Moot]

^this is true particularily,brit speak to north american lingo...listening to the BBC I hear it all the time...like the other day I caught that apparently eulogy is not U-lo-gee it's el-a-gee...:rolleyes:

[funk63]

sow nah? that sounds like someone with a boston accent trying to say sonar.
saw nah ftw.

[TAL]

Only b-grrrlie and I truly know.

We can also say "smörgåsbord" the correct way.

[MC Moot]

^I'll guess "Smore-ha-boar"...

[b-grrrlie]

Only b-grrrlie and I truly know.

We can also say "smörgåsbord" the correct way.

Yeah we're cool like that!
o helvete heller!

[ms.peachy]

^this is true particularily,brit speak to north american lingo...listening to the BBC I hear it all the time...like the other day I caught that apparently eulogy is not U-lo-gee it's el-a-gee...:rolleyes:

Two different words. One can read an elegy as a eulogy, or be eulogised in an elegy though.

[MC Moot]

Two different words. One can read an elegy as a eulogy, or be eulogised in an elegy though.

ohhhh,I see...imagine that,the day a Jersey girl would school me on vocabulary...;)

(y)

[Lyman Zerga]

i say saunah

[funk63]

its like the tuh may toe, tuh mah toe thing. but who the fuck says tuh mah toe?

[Lyman Zerga]

i say tomaten or paradeiser!

[icy manipulator]

hahahaha, an american making a thread about proper pronounciation. :rolleyes:

[Jitters]

Saw-nuh.

Like saw nuff.

[hitmonlee]

even if i am pronouncing it wrong, i'm not going to be the pretentious freak who goes around telling people "it's actually sow-na".

[taquitos]

in tennessee saying sow-na would just mean you have a ridiculous accent

[venusvenus123]

like it matters

[Dorothy Wood]

well, considering it's a finnish word and the pronunciation of the vowels in the finnish language would come out sounding like "sow-nah" in an american accent, I think that this is pretty much a closed subject.

the majority of people say "saw nah", that much is true. doesn't make it right.

it's like all the french words that people pick and choose how to pronounce. I live in Illinois and mostly everyone pronounces it "Illenoy", but there's a town called Des Plaines nearby and everyone calls it "dess planes". or like in college, the book store was called DuBois. I called it "du bwah", but everyone else referred to as "du boys".



why are the australians getting so testy about this subject when they have some of the weirdest accents around?

[venusvenus123]

americans always pronounce scones wrong. and i can't think how finnish people might say it. let's start a thread about that.

let's not go near words like leicester. or arkansas.

an american guy once stayed at my house. he got awfully annoyed with me because i wouldn't pronounce his friend Clara's name the american way. but i don't open my mouth like that to pronounce anything, it just feels all wrong!

[hitmonlee]

hahaha, sif. been to south africa lately bro?

edit: directed at d.wood :)

[Dorothy Wood]

yarp, no.

I'm just teasing. accents are neato. I was raised pretty much to speak in a plain non-descript by the book sort of non-accent. My mother sounds like an american newscaster and people have a hard time figuring out where she's from. Any sort of inflection I picked up from my mother and/or grandmother was a finnish sort of way of pronouncing things, like putting the accent on the first syllable of words. "let's watch TEEvee", instead of "let's watch teeVEE". I still get made fun of for it. I've also definitely developed a midwestern accent over the years.


wait, how are you supposed to say scone?

[hitmonlee]

scown
instead of
scon

i assume

i say scon, sounds less wanky.

[Dorothy Wood]

odd. I say "skoan" (rhymes with cone), never heard anybody say scon before. :/

[hitmonlee]

odd. I say "skoan" (rhymes with cone), never heard anybody say scon before. :/

yeah that was the first one i said, but i suppose skoan is better than scown...

everyone here says scon.

scone Audio Help /skoʊn, skɒn/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[skohn, skon] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1. a small, light, biscuitlike quick bread made of oatmeal, wheat flour, barley meal, or the like.
2. biscuit (def. 1).

[venusvenus123]

scone Audio Help /skoʊn, skɒn/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[skohn, skon] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1. a small, light, biscuitlike quick bread made of oatmeal, wheat flour, barley meal, or the like.
2. biscuit (def. 1).

that's not even a scone!

i say scon, but how you say it depends on which part of the country you come from. i was only kidding.

i remember getting on a bus in downtown new york and asking if the bus went to 42nd street. the driver kept asking me to repeat it and i continued to annunciate it in my best queen's english, only making him more and more confused. finally someone behind me said "yeah lady, it does". hahah

[Gareth]

yea i'm pretty sure a scone isnt biscuit-like.
ps - saw nah.

[hitmonlee]

my friend reckons its said skooon

like broon sauce

[Auton]

hahahaha, an american making a thread about proper pronounciation. :rolleyes:

YOU TOTALLY JUST WENT THERE

[Bob]

i pronounce it "skizone" as in "hell yeah bitch gimme another skizone them shits is off the hook"

i was not popular in england

[The Notorious LOL]

why are the australians getting so testy about this subject when they have some of the weirdest accents around?

its not like theres anything else to do in Australia.

[ms.peachy]

yea i'm pretty sure a scone isnt biscuit-like.


I think it is worth pointing out that Americans and Brits have entirely different ideas of what "biscuit-like" would mean. In Britain, the word "biscuit" is used like Americans use the word "cookie". To an American, a scone is certainly not like a cookie, but it is rather like a biscuit.

btw I am eating a sultana scone right now!

[venusvenus123]

gareth is from new zealand. i'm pretty sure they do british scones there.
i threatened to take him for english tea when he came over here and he assured me it wasn't necessary :p

i am so confused tho... an english scone is seen as a biscuit in america?:confused:
the UN ought to draw up some charter to put everything straight.

[Bob]

gareth is from new zealand. i'm pretty sure they do british scones there.
i threatened to take him for english tea when he came over here and he assured me it wasn't necessary :p

i am so confused tho... an english scone is seen as a biscuit in america?:confused:
the UN ought to draw up some charter to put everything straight.

these (http://cleanplateclubnyc.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/Biscuit%20from%20Clinton%20Street.jpg) are what we call biscuits in america, which do look a lot like these (http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&hl=en&safe=off&q=scones&btnG=Search+Images)

[na§tee]

way to make me feel like if i don't eat a scone now i may keel over and die, guys. jesus christ. i haven't desired a food this much for an age.

[gbsuey]

is there not a gravy and biscuits thing in the u.s? I'm sure i read that the "biscuit" is bigger than our idea of one-hope so-dipping biccies in coffee,yummy-biccies in bisto,vomit(ok that /\ wasn't there a second ago)

and i would say scon-to say it like loan would be a bit posh here,like.

the family i work for say Karen like car-en (proper posh!) so i bet they would call it a scoan

[ms.peachy]

gareth is from new zealand. i'm pretty sure they do british scones there.
i threatened to take him for english tea when he came over here and he assured me it wasn't necessary :p

Yeah but I mean, the definition that was quoted previously where it was first described as being like a biscuit, I'm guessing that was from an American dictionary probably?

i am so confused tho... an english scone is seen as a biscuit in america?:confused:
the UN ought to draw up some charter to put everything straight.

sort of but not really... In America (generally, there may be regional variations) the term 'biscuit' usually refers to a... well, it's like a scone, in that it's a small bread product leavened with baking soda (bicarb) rather than yeast (usually). In America though they are usually not sweetened or have fruit in them like they might over here - they're a type of dinner roll basically; you would usually have them with like a roast or something and they would be used to sop up juices and gravy, that sort of thing. You wouldn't likely eat them on their own as a snack or with cream or jam or anything.

edited to add: we wouldn't call a British scone a biscuit though, just a scone. Biscuits are savoury, scones are sweet, if that helps (cheese scones not withstanding).

[Kid Presentable]

Alison Holst ftw.

[abcdefz]

SAW-nuh.

[Documad]

Only b-grrrlie and I truly know.

We can also say "smörgåsbord" the correct way.
I say SCHMoor-gus-board. Not because I think it's correct, but because I think it's funny. I also pronounce the "t" in buffet because I think it's funny.

[QueenAdrock]

^Yeah, I do the same thing when I'm talking about Jean Valjean and Les Miserables. You can really tear that one apart.

[Gareth]

perhaps it was from an american dictionary but i guess i was referring to the fact that hitmonlee provided the definition and she's australian....and i assumed aussies do scones in the british non-biscuit style
anyway...scones...even i can make scones.

[venusvenus123]

the best scones are the ones you eat with butter and optional jam.

i've decided to take a prejudiced view against the american variety.
sorry peachy :o

[Dorothy Wood]

these are american biscuits: http://www.kfc.com/tips/images/ky_biscuits.jpg

they are soft and buttery usually, not as dry as scones. scones and american biscuits have a similar texture though. looks like those are pictured with honey. sometimes people put butter and honey on them.

or people eat biscuits and gravy, and the gravy is sausage gravy....it's white and creamy and has bits of meat in it. very salty! delicious if you get the right kind, but basically a heart attack on a plate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Biscuits-and-gravy.jpg

[hitmonlee]

jam and cream ftw
http://www.taste.com.au/images/recipes/agt/2006/09/8274.jpg

i have to make some tonight
mmmmmmscones

[ms.peachy]

the best scones are the ones you eat with butter and optional jam.

i've decided to take a prejudiced view against the american variety.
sorry peachy :o
Fair enough, but don't let that stop you from enjoying a big ol' plate of southern style soul food mopped up with a biscuit, if you ever get the chance. One of life's great pleasures.

[hitmonlee]

sooo a biscuit is like a dumpling? or more like a piece of bread? or an english muffin?

[ericlee]

the hell does biscuits have aything to do with SAWnuuuhhs.

[Gareth]

that biscuit and sausage gravy thing is intimidating.

[Gareth]

scone + cream + jam + cup of tea = win